LEAD AND FOLLOW
“A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus.” - Martin Luther King, Jr.
A leader can be defined in many ways, yet true leadership is beyond mere definition. A leader for me is someone who is the foundation of your team, the one who motivates you to do your job well. A considerate person who understands the lapses but points it out in order for you to know where you overlooked something. Great leader creates more leaders, not followers. If you don’t have that many followers because you are not that popular, it’s okay. Leadership is not defined by how many followers you have, because I know that deep in my heart that quality is greater than quantity. You don’t have to find that many followers, you just need a few right ones who will be there for you.
What Makes a Good Leader
1. Takes responsibility. - A good is someone who is not afraid to take responsibility.
2. Serves wholeheartedly - A good leader works genuinely and not just for show. You prioritize your follower’s welfare more than what makes you happy
3. Open to suggestions - Sometimes you are followed because they admire your ideas, but it doesn’t mean that you will neglect their ideas, tell them that you are open to suggestions because their suggestions may give you more idea and can change the current situation.
4. Creates more leaders - A good leader is someone who inspires and motivates other to become a leader themselves. They are willing to share their best advice on how to be a great leader through their actions, and ideas.
A follower is someone who follows the person they admire, the one who changed their lives due to their ideas and shine can. A follower even apply it for themselves in order to lead others, and that’s the purpose of our leaders to create more leaders by inspiring followers to become leaders themselves because I believe that each and everyone of us are natural leaders though we still have to go through the process of being a clueless follower that is then molded by other people whom we followed.
What makes a Good Follower
1. Suggests Ideas - A good follower is willing to give ideas in order to help the team, because giving ideas is very important in order for the group to know your opinions that can be later used for your works.
2. Willing to work with the team - A good follower collaborate with the team, doing what should be done and offer help to those who are in need.
3. Aware - A good follower should be aware of their surrounding. Being observant is a very important aspect in our daily routine.
Being a leader and follower can go both ways, because nothing is permanent and everything will change. You just have to accept the fact about the changes in you lives but you have to be okay with it. To conclude, a leader should also be a follower at some point and a follower should take up the responsibility in order to become a leader, because for a follower, that’s just the first step in becoming the a great leader in the future and as a leader, you have to follow because this will be your eye opener in order for you to see what you overlooked before. Following others at some point will help you to connect with other people, thus refining your being leader because you are showered by ideas that are useful in our day to day life. If there’s some whom I truly admired, it would be Jesus, because He is a servant-leader who is true to His duty and responsibility.
